2022-09-29 Meeting notes

1:05

Words from John

John

Reminder about Team Keck deadline. Starting prep for SSC and board meeting in Nov. 8-9 with the aim for 2 hours from SAs. Intro slide to instrument, major news, and risk matrix. NIKUG week of Nov 17th. Make sure to be charging DSI related items to the DSI-NASA account. Maunakea users meeting happing now.

JWST Cycle 2 joint proposals with up to 10 nights of Keck time.

1:15

Discuss SSC instrument reports

All

See Randy’s email for SSC instrument presentations for Nov.

Can we include any information related to decommission priorities of instruments? Do we have metrics on the time charged to specific instruments by daycrew?

1:25

KVSP discussion - looking ahead to FY23, soliciting candidates & applications

All

Item from previous meeting to find Visiting Scholars for 2023.

Any progress soliciting candidates? Possibility of an open call?

• Sherry has been looking related to LRIS autoslit replacement.

• Greg has been looking at getting a scholar for a NIRSPEC pipeline.

• Rosalie had contacted a candidate, but they are graduating soon.

1:50

Instrument Workshop

All

Jim will look into what to charge time too.

Jason will send feedback.

1:53

K2 AO Discussion

All

Pyramid offered in 23A without vortex

Charlotte Bond helping remotely with engineering at end of October

For SSC can we convey the amount of time/effort going into running the AO systems?